Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. (Horace Mann)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. (Horace Mann)
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. (Horace Mann)
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Horace Mann)
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital (Horace Mann)
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. (Horace Mann)
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. (Horace Mann)
A house without books is like a room without windows. (Horace Mann)
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. (Horace Mann)
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its vast numbers to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted, by the refining alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual treasuresand thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power. (Horace Mann)
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. (Horace Mann)
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. (Horace Mann)
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. (Horace Mann)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. (Horace Mann)